Discharge Measurements in Corte Madera marsh, Northern San Francisco Bay, CA in Summer of 2022 and Winter of 2023.

This data set consists of discharge measurements collected using a Teledyne RD Instruments RiverPro ADCP (Teledyne RD Instruments, 2021). All data were collected with Teledyne RD Instruments WinRiver II (Teledyne RD Instruments, 2016) and processed with QRev version 4.31 or 4.33 (Mueller, 2016). Due to the complexity of an ADCP data file and the various algorithms applied to compute the streamflow from ADCP data, these data are most useful in either 1) their original raw data format which can be opened and processed in either WinRiver II or QRev or 2) their processed format which can be opened and processed by QRev or opened by Matlab or any software that can read Matlab formatted files. Both WinRiver II and QRev are distributed free.

WinRiver II can be obtained from: https://hydroacoustics.usgs.gov/movingboat/WinRiverII.shtml
QRev can be obtained from: https://hydroacoustics.usgs.gov/movingboat/QRev.shtml

The WinRiver II files consist of:

1. .mmt file: XML configuration file used by WinRiver II for setup, specific measurement data entry, and filenames of the raw transect data files (pd0)
2. .pd0 files: raw binary data collected by WinRiver II. The format for these files is defined in Teledyne RD Instruments (2013).

The QRev files consist of:

1. .mat files: saved data processed by QRev. These files can be opened and processed by QRev or loaded into Matlab or software that can read Matlab formatted files. The variable definitions are documented in Mueller (2016).
2. .xml files: summaries of the data processed by QRev. The variable definitions are documented in Mueller (2016). The primary variables used in the index-velocity computation are the total discharge, located in Channel:Transect:Discharge:Total, and the channel cross-sectional area, located in Channel:Transect:Other:Area.

QRev file naming convention consists of YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_VER_BT_QRev where VER is the software version 4.31 or 4.33, and BT indicates the location of data within each transect was determined using bottom tracking from the initial GPS position.

This dataset is in the form of a zip file, NBM_discharge.zip, with the following folder structure:

Summer_1/QRev_Files:
20220819_213307_431_BT_QRev.mat: QRev processed data in Matlab format
20220819_213307_431_BT_QRev.xml: QRev XML summary file

Summer_1/WinRiver_II_Files:
20220809_0.mmt: XML configuration file
20220809_0_xxx.PD0: Raw binary data
tce_0_005_LBT.PD0: Raw binary file

Summer_2/QRev_Files:
20220819_213419_431_BT_QRev.mat: QRev processed data in Matlab format
20220819_213419_431_BT_QRev.xml: QRev XML summary file

WT_Summer_TCE_2/WinRiver_II_Files:
20220810_0.mmt: XML configuration file
20220810_0_xxx.PD0: Raw binary data

Summer_3/QRev_Files:
20220819_213458_431_BT_QRev.mat: QRev processed data in Matlab format
20220819_213458_431_BT_QRev.xml: QRev XML summary file

Summer_3/WinRiver_II_Files:
20220810B_0.mmt: XML configuration file
20220810B_0_xxx.PD0: Raw binary data

Winter_1/QRev_Files:
20230125_200755_433_BT_QRev.mat: QRev processed data in Matlab format
20230125_200755_433_BT_QRev.xml: QRev XML summary file

Winter_1/WinRiver_II_Files:
20230119_CM_0.mmt: XML configuration file
20230119_CM_0_xxx.PD0: Raw binary data

Winter_2/QRev_Files:
20230125_201135_433_BT_QRev.mat: QRev processed data in Matlab format
20230125_201135_433_BT_QRev.xml: QRev XML summary file

Winter_2/WinRiver_II_Files:
20230120_CM3_0.mmt: XML configuration file
20230120_CM3_0_xxx.PD0: Raw binary data
20230120_CM3_0_xxx_SBT.PDO: Raw binary file of static bed test